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Caught on Camera: Rethinking IoT Security
We all know that we're on camera pretty much constantly -- most coffee shops, convenience stores, and even offices employ security cameras for protection. But what happens when those devices built to keep us safe become unsafe?...
Akamai Titans 2020: Celebrating Outstanding Achievements
To Akamai's Co-Founder Danny Lewin, calling someone a "Titan" was the highest praise he would give. Danny himself was a remarkably talented and hard-working leader whose heart, passion, and spirit still inspire us...
Emerging Edge Computing Use Cases
The first rule of edge compute thought leadership is: don't overuse the term edge. Over the course of my blog series on the topic, I have defined the edge, explained edge computing, and discussed the economics of edge computing. There have also been a few articles in which I've discussed how...
Emerging Edge Computing Use Cases
The first rule of edge compute thought leadership is: don't overuse the term edge. Over the course of my blog series on the topic, I have defined the edge, explained edge computing, and discussed the economics of edge computing...
Tax Season: Criminals Play the Numbers Game Too
Criminals love tax season. The stress and urgency surrounding this time of year makes the victim pool highly vulnerable to various types of schemes...
2021: Volumetric DDoS Attacks Rising Fast
In our 2020 DDoS retrospective, we highlighted the twists and turns of a very, very active threat landscape. As a quick refresher, we mitigated some of the largest attacks ever seen 1.44 Tbps and 809 Mpps; saw more attacks on customers across more diverse industries than ever before; and observed...
2021: Volumetric DDoS Attacks Rising Fast
In our 2020 DDoS retrospective, we highlighted the twists and turns of a very, very active threat landscape. As a quick refresher, we mitigated some of the largest attacks ever seen 1.44 Tbps and 809 Mpps;...
4 Helpful Features for Centra Users - Policy Monitoring and More
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CVE-2020-15915 -- Quest for KACE blind SQLi
At Akamai, the Enterprise Security Red Team ESRT continuously strives to evaluate the security of both our external and internal services...
Akamai Focused on "What's Next" Following New Traffic Milestone
Akamai hit a new milestone last week when web traffic delivered across our edge network peaked at 200 terabits per second Tbps. To be blunt - that's a whole lot of data traveling the world in a very short amount of time. We believe we can make a good case that it's more than the entire reported...
Authentication: Lessons Learned from Microsoft Exchange and F5 BIG-IP Hacks
The past month has been a very dynamic time in the world of security for hackers and threat researchers, but it has been an extended nightmare for CSOs responsible for securing their enterprise networks. For starters, on-premise Microsoft Exchange servers were attacked in droves after a set of...
Akamai Foundation: Our Chance to Give Back
The Akamai Foundation was set up in 2018 to improve the impact and focus of our long-term philanthropic activities. Importantly, we wanted to support the next generation of technology innovators; promoting the pursuit of excellence in STEM education amongst school children. Our work had an...
Akamai Focused on What's Next Following New Traffic Milestone
Akamai hit a new milestone last week when web traffic delivered across our edge network peaked at 200 terabits per second Tbps...
The Akamai Foundation: Our Chance to Give Back
The Akamai Foundation was set up in 2018 to improve the impact and focus of our long-term philanthropic activities...
Akamai Focused on What's Next Following New Traffic Milestone
Akamai hit a new milestone last week when web traffic delivered across our edge network peaked at 200 terabits per second Tbps...
Authentication: Lessons Learned From Microsoft Exchange And F5 Big-IP Hacks
The past month has been a very dynamic time in the world of security for hackers and threat researchers, but it has been an extended nightmare for CSOs responsible for securing their enterprise networks...
Threat Advisory - DCCP for (D)DoS
Recent attacks against Akamai customers have leveraged a networking protocol known as protocol 33, or Datagram Congestion Control Protocol DCCP...
4 Techniques for Early Ransomware Detection
If you receive a ransom note, it’s already too late. Detect and stop ransomware attacks early in the kill chain with these 4 techniques...
DNSSEC: How It Works & Key Considerations
From its beginnings as a replacement for a centralized database, the Domain Name System DNS has evolved into a dynamic, highly distributed, question-answer protocol. The proverbial "phone book of the internet" has increased in complexity and scale alongside the rapid growth of the World Wide Web...
Akamai Launch Cohort 2 of Accelerator Program for Early-Stage Innovations in Water
Akamai Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. has chosen the grantees for Cohort 2 of Accelerator Program for Early-Stage Innovations in Water. The Accelerator Program enables grantees to ideate their technology-based solutions for water conservation. This year, two grantees -- SmartTerra and Jaljeevika --...
The Edge is Becoming More Critical in a World of 5G and IoT
The edge is becoming more critical in a world of 5G and IoT. I've seen the evolution from 1x to 3G to 4G and now 5G over the many years I've worked in the mobile space, and 5G and IoT will drive the biggest changes we have seen on the edge in 10 or 20 years. This discussion is happening in the...
Akamai Launch Cohort 2 of Accelerator Program For Early-Stage Innovations in Water
Akamai Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. has chosen the grantees for Cohort 2 of Accelerator Program for Early-Stage Innovations in Water...
The Edge is Becoming More Critical in a World of 5G and IoT
The edge is becoming more critical in a world of 5G and IoT. I've seen the evolution from 1x to 3G to 4G and now 5G over the many years I've worked in the mobile space, and 5G and IoT will drive the biggest changes we have seen on the edge in 10 or 20 years...
Finding the Cracks in the Wall - How Modern Scams Bypass MFA
In my previous blog, I discussed the important role multi-factor authentication MFA plays in further securing access to enterprise and consumer services. We also established the fact that although MFA increases authentication security and decreases the risk of account takeover, MFA can, and is,...
Finding the Cracks in the Wall - The Hazard of Single Authentication Factor
The use of authentication factors, one of the most fundamental and well understood concepts in information security, enables secure access to applications, services, and networks. It can affect an enterprise's security posture, however, as the drastic increase in data breaches and system attacks...
Phish-Proof Multi-Factor Authentication with Akamai MFA
Today, Akamai announced Akamai MFA, a phish-proof multi-factor authentication MFA service for the workforce that delivers all of the security benefits of FIDO2 with the frictionless end-user experience of a mobile push on a smartphone. Why has Akamai introduced this new service? When an employee...
Finding the Cracks in the Wall - How Modern Scams Bypass MFA
In my previous blog, I discussed the important role multi-factor authentication MFA plays in further securing access to enterprise and consumer services. We also established the fact that although MFA increases authentication security and decreases the risk of account takeover, MFA can, and is,...
Another Golang Crypto Miner On the Loose
There are many crypto mining malware variants infecting systems on the internet. On Friday, March 4, 2021, I noticed an interesting hit in my honeypot logs. The binary it captured stood out, as it was rather large at 4MB. I immediately thought it would be a crypto miner written in the Go language...
Phish-Proof Multi-Factor Authentication with Akamai MFA
Today, Akamai announced Akamai MFA, a phish-proof multi-factor authentication MFA service for the workforce that delivers all of the security benefits of FIDO2 with the frictionless end-user experience of a mobile push on a smartphone. Why has Akamai introduced this new service?...
Finding the Cracks in the Wall - The Hazard of Single Authentication Factor
The use of authentication factors, one of the most fundamental and well understood concepts in information security, enables secure access to applications, services, and networks. It can affect an enterprise's security posture, however, as the drastic increase in data breaches and system attacks...
How Akamai Can Help You Fight the Latest Exploitation Attempts Against Microsoft Exchange
Co-authored by Ryan Barnett. AppSec Protections for Microsoft Exchange CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2021-26857, CVE-2021-26858, CVE-2021-27065 On March 2, 2021, the Microsoft Security Response Center alerted its customers to several critical security updates to Microsoft Exchange Server, addressing...
Microsoft Exchange and Verkada Hacks: Isolate Your Apps and APIs from the Internet Cesspool
It's been an interesting start to March in terms of public security incidents. This month kicked off with multiple zero-day exploits being used to attack on-premises versions of Microsoft Exchange Server. And, as if that wasn't enough, that attack was quickly followed by the news that a hacktivis...
How Akamai Can Help You Fight the Latest Exploitation Attempts Against Microsoft Exchange
On March 2, 2021, the Microsoft Security Response Center alerted its customers to several?critical security?updates to Microsoft Exchange Server, addressing vulnerabilities currently?under attack...
How Akamai Can Help You Fight the Latest Exploitation Attempts Against Microsoft Exchange
On March 2, 2021, the Microsoft Security Response Center alerted its customers to several critical security updates to Microsoft Exchange Server, addressing vulnerabilities currently under attack...
Microsoft Exchange and Verkada Hacks: Isolate Your Apps and APIs from the Internet Cesspool
It's been an interesting start to March in terms of public security incidents. This month kicked off with multiple zero-day exploits being used to attack on-premises versions of Microsoft Exchange Server. And, as if that wasn't enough, that attack was quickly followed by the news that a hacktivis...
Act Against Geopiracy with Enhanced Proxy Detection
Widespread Use of Location Spoofing to Circumvent Territorial Content Restrictions Is the image below relatable? According to the description, the service is a VPN desktop application and proxy browser extension that helps viewers mask their physical location, circumvent censorship, and restore...
Akamai Offers Free Tier for Client-Side Edge Security
In March of 2020, Akamai saw a dramatic 30% rise in internet traffic --- equivalent to an entire year of growth 1. Post-pandemic, Akamai believes there will be a return to normal internet traffic growth, but many things will never be the same. In general, we particularly expect to see greater...
Act Against Geopiracy with Enhanced Proxy Detection
According to the description, the service is a virtual private network VPN desktop application and proxy browser extension that helps viewers mask their physical location, circumvent censorship, and restore access to blocked content...
Akamai Offers Free Tier for Client-Side Edge Security
In March 2020, Akamai saw a dramatic 30% rise in internet traffic -- equivalent to an entire year of growth. Post-pandemic, we believe there will be a return to normal internet traffic growth, but many things will never be the same...
Serverless Storage at the Edge (EdgeKV Beta)
We are pleased to announce the launch of EdgeKV, our distributed key-value store, into beta! EdgeKV is enabling technology for EdgeWorkers, our serverless computing platform that enables developers to create services using JavaScript and deploy them across our platform. When writing JavaScript,...
EdgeKV: Serverless Storage at the Edge
We are pleased to announce the launch of EdgeKV, our distributed key-value store, into beta! EdgeKV is enabling technology for EdgeWorkers, our serverless computing platform that enables developers to create services using JavaScript and deploy them across our platform. When writing JavaScript,...
Now Launching - SOTI: Research
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Finding the Best Servers to Answer Queries -- Edge DNS and Anycast
TL;DR IP Anycast is a network addressing and routing methodology that allows IP addresses to be announced from multiple points on the internet With the proper implementation, Anycast can reduce DNS RTTs and offer innate DDoS protection Akamai's authoritative name service, Edge DNS, combines globa...
Is MFA a Security Illusion?
A recent Akamai Security blog post, Massive Campaign Targeting UK Banks Bypassing 2FA, written by my colleague Or Katz, is a great insight into how attackers used very simple techniques to bypass two-factor 2FA authentication security to obtain access to U.K. consumers' bank accounts. The attack...
Finding the Best Servers to Answer Queries — Edge DNS and Anycast
While Unicast defines a single destination endpoint for a given IP, Anycast is an addressing technique in which the same IP is advertised from multiple servers simultaneously...
Sensor Architecture Can Help Keep Us Up and Running: Part 2
Previously, I introduced the field of sensor systems architecture and posed a real world example scenario of the unnecessary resource costs and hazards that can happen when the deployment of sensors isn't carefully thought out...
Akamai Startup Program: Fostering Innovation
Akamai, the intelligent edge platform for securing and delivering digital experiences, continues to focus on innovation by launching Cohort 2 of the Akamai Startup program. Started in India in 2019, the Akamai Startup program leverages the startup ecosystem to drive Akamai's strategic priorities...
Akamai Startup Program: Fostering Innovation
Akamai, the intelligent edge platform for securing and delivering digital experiences, continues to focus on innovation by launching Cohort 2 of the Akamai Startup program...
Is MFA a Security Illusion?
A recent Akamai Security blog post, Massive Campaign Targeting UK Banks Bypassing 2FA, written by my colleague Or Katz, is a great insight into how attackers used very simple techniques to bypass two-factor 2FA authentication security to obtain access to U.K. consumers' bank accounts...
Sensor Architecture Can Help Keep Us Up and Running: Part 1
In the constant press of rolling out ever better products and services to our customers, it can be easy-- and often necessary-- to fall into a reactive mode around reliability...